In his classroom lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary, B. B. Warfield enjoyed saying to his students, “Gentlemen, I like the supernatural!” He reveled in the fact—and loved to emphasize in his teaching and writing—that Christianity is a thoroughly supernatural religion. This may seem strange coming from the man who wrote the famous Counterfeit Miracles, a powerfully influential denial of the continued presence of the miraculous gifts of the
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